#NowPlaying - a ground zero for so much, but why so many cowrites for kevin ayers & so few lead vocals? is it like the neil-young's-voice-was-too-weird-for-the-springfield thing or just cuz ayers was the new guy? and how many steps between "we did it again" & oneida's "sheets of easter"? @Corry342@vinylrecords#canterbury#prog
9 May 1234: Edmund des Roches, Archbishop of #Canterbury threatens to excommunicate Henry III #otd unless he changed his manner of governance (McGlinchey)
21 Apr 1597: Richard Bancroft elected Bishop of #London, later as Archbishop of #Canterbury, he oversaw the Authorised Version of #Bible project #otd (NPG) In London, he went on a drive to make ministers conform to the canons.
20 Apr 1012: St. Alphege Archbishop of #Canterbury - killed on day before by his Viking captors during the course of a drunken party - is buried #otd in
St Paul's London
19 Apr 1554: Matthew Parker, the future Archbishop of #Canterbury former chaplain to Anne Boleyn & very significant manuscript collector deprived of his Deanery of #Lincoln for being married #otd (LPL)
6 Apr 1619: George Abbot, Archbishop of #Canterbury lays the foundation stone of The Hospital of the Blessed Trinity, now better known as Abbot's Hospital at #Guildford#otd (Jack1956/NPG)
30 Mar 1648: Gilbert Sheldon (future Archbishop of #Canterbury) forcibly ejected from the wardenship of All Souls #Oxford#otd by Parliament's Visitors (NPG)
He nonetheless later left a permanent mark on the University landscape
28 Mar 1558: Cardinal Archbishop Reginald Pole names Hugh Turnbull, Dean of #Chichester, a commissioner to investigate heresy in the diocese of #Canterbury#otd (BM)
27 Mar 1604: funeral of John Whitgift, Archbishop of #Canterbury#otd (Lambeth Palace) he died 29 Feb 1604 at #Lambeth. He had himself been chief mourner at Elizabeth I’s funeral.
26 Mar 1574: John Whitgift Dean of #Lincoln preaches the New Year sermon for Elizabeth I at #Greenwich in defence of episcopal government. As Archbishop of #Canterbury he would be at her death bed & then chief mourner at her funeral in 1603 (eebo/NPG)
26 Mar 668: Pope Vitalian consecrates Theodore of Tarsus as Archbishop of #Canterbury#otd (Bm/AntiochianOrthodox) but only after the shaven-headed monk's hair had grown out & then could be tonsured in the western style #hairmatters
25 Mar 1556 Reginald Pole new Archbishop of #Canterbury receives the Pallium on the third day after his consecration on the feast of the Annunciation & first day of the New Year #otd (National Trust images)